The Wilkie Brewers now know who they will be matched up against in the North Saskatchewan River Baseball League semifinals as they look to win their first championship since 2008.
While the dates and times were still being finalized as of Wednesday afternoon, the Brewers will be going up against the Meadow Lake Sox in a best-of-three series.
The third seeded Sox advanced to the semifinal in dramatic fashion in Meadow Lake on Tuesday night with an 8-7 win in extra innings over the sixth ranked Macklin Lakers.
Down 7-2 to the Lakers, the Sox scored five runs in the seventh inning to force extra innings before scoring the game-winning run on a single from team MVP Kevin Gerwing.
The Brewers, who finished the regular season with the second best record in the NSRBL, will have home field advantage for the playoffs after they swept the defending champion Border City Twins of Lloydminster last week.
Following a walk-off win in extra innings in Wilkie to start off the series, the Brewers jumped out to a seven-run lead early in Lloydminster last Tuesday on their way to a 9-6 triumph.
The two teams have only played each other once during the 2016 regular season with the Sox prevailing in an 8-3 contest in Meadow Lake on May 29.
Gerwing was dominant at the plate in the game for the Sox by scoring three runs on two hits while Quincy Walker stymied the Brewers batters with 11 strikeouts over seven innings of work.
The other semifinal will have the top seeded Lloydminster Twins taking on the fifth ranked Standard Hill Lakers.
The Twins had won six straight league championships before last year when they were upset by the Jays.
